inshore

adjective

1. close or closer to the shore.
2. lying near the shore; operating or carried on close to the shore: inshore fishing.

adverb

3. toward the shore: They went closer inshore.

adjective

1. in or on the water, but close to the shoreinshore weather

adverb, adjective

2. towards the shore from the wateran inshore wind; we swam inshore